He did not want a federal takeover.
Thank you for the easily offended, emotionally-manipulated, TDS-suffering, Trump-hating, Obama-worshipping Liberal Progressive Socialist Democrat, highly opinionated snowflake translation and clarification of what Barry was thinking when he ordered his Homeland Security Director to secretly hack into state election processes without informing them he was going to do so, which was only discovered and exposed by state cyber-security teams detecting the attempts.
I am sure Obama's continuous illegal spying on citizens, reporters, media, US Senators, and USSC Justices were also 'tests' designed to see how easily someone could do so.
Trump clearly wants Russian help in 2020.

Bwuhahahahaha.......
It was Barry who sent Hillary to meet with the Russian Ambassador to give him a cheap 'Re-Set' prop that had a plaque that ineptly had the word 'Over-Charge' in Russian on it instead of the intended word 'Reset' on it.
It was BARRY caught in 2012 telling Putin-Puppet Medvedev to pass on to his master that he (Barry) would be more flexible to comply with Vlad's wishes after his (Barry's) re-election...
- 2 years later Barry gave Putin / Russia US uranium, Crimea, and 2 years of unchallenged Counter-Intel Ops, electrical grid-hacking attempts, and unchallenged attempted interference in this country...and the Nobel Peace Prize winner got Vlad's permission to invade Syria.
It was Hillary and Barry who used a Trump-hating, agenda-driven, lying foreign spy to acquire Russian-authored Counter-Intelligence propaganda toin an attempt to alter the 2016 election in Hillary's favor.
It was then-Obama FBI Director Mueller who hid Russian crimes of extortion, bribery, intimidation, and assault associated with the KGB Bank's attempt to acquire US uranium.
It was Hillary and Holder who knew about all of this and said nothing to the rest of the committee they were on that was responsible for approving the sale or not.
It was Barry who immediately signed the Dem legislation after the sale allowing the rule preventing the uranium to be shipped outside of the United States to be changed, resulting in the uranium to find its way to Europe and into Russian hands.
It was Joe Biden who made a video-taped confession of extorting the former Ukraine President, and it was Barry and Joe who refused to provide the Ukraine with lethal military aid and prevented anyone else from providing lethal military aid needed by Ukraine to defend itself from Russia's pending invasion and annexation of Crimea - Barry's withholding lethal military aid allowed Vlad to send his troops in without fear of serious resistance.
It was BARRY in 2014 who learned about Russia's massive effort to hack into our electrical grid, hack into senior govt officials / politicians' servers / e-mails, and attempt to alter US elections yet did nothing to stop it. Barry's own administration members admitted this and said about it, 'We fell on our faces on this one'
It was snowflakes like YOU who were duped by the Russians and their Counter-Intel operation using social media into organizing and actually marching for the Russians back in 2016. (How many times did you march for them, snowflake?)
BY COMPARISON.....
President Trump is tougher on Russia in 18 months than Obama in eight years
(Not that you will make any effort to read any of it an educate yourself....)